Dear all, Martin here, back in good humour. Last night's gig at the Acoustic Caff was 100 times better than the night before. Indeed the night actually sold out (though Matinee made the princely sum of £8 from the door - listen guys, flyers are for handing in, not pinning to your kitchen wall). So now its down to some songwriting before our Poetry Caff outing in Feb and a Friday night headline at the Acoustic in March. Go to www.members.tripod.com/~the_embankment on Monday for some new pics, postings and, perhaps, smut. Right. Now I can cut back on the shameless self-publicity and concentrate on biscuit-munching meditations on Belle & Sebastian, love, lists and life. (By the way, can we guillotine the grammar debate, please? It's bad enough correcting spellings for a living, without having people do it to your personal thoughts. "As impersonal as a love letter from a sub-editor," was the only thing that uber-toff and Cosmopoltian's 4th placed woman of achievement (1996) Charlotte Eagar said that I could identify with in the short time that I worked for her this year.) I'm thoroughly enjoying list life at the moment, except for the lack of Courtney action. Love life's showing green shoots of recovery, too, after I got talking to a first year art student on the tube back from last night's gig. I'm not alone in falling in love with a different person every day on London's fabulous late-night transport network am I? B&S content shall unfortunately be restricted to buying Modern Rock Song in my lunch hour on Monday and playing it to death all week. Good to see the band getting their dues in Select magazine at last. Andy Perry and Roy Wilkinson must have beaten Chopper Harris into submission with the Arab Strap, as it were. I'm not a betting man, but after last week's 'death of youth culture' issue, it wouldn't surprise me if B&S made it to the cover of NME next week too, interview or not. In my brand new minidisc - bootlegs of Pink Floyd, circa Atom Heart Mother; ie slightly disturbing pastoral phase. Very interesting. Martin Horsfield, light headed PS/Sorry Gary. Course I know da'Rovers are a 1st Divsion side. I also remember how about twelve of you invaded the pitch and came into our end when we knocked you out of the Freight Rover around 1985. Still, you can't help but love a team that had Morrissey playing for them, can you? How could you let Ray Mathias come back to Wigan, though? That's two fucking great managers we've poached off you (though Bryan Hamilton's not that popular down Wigan way any more). PPS/Does anyone know why hotmail chops the end of all of my messages? ______________________________________________________ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+